The Saint and the Chopped-up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe /

Smoller, Laura Ackerman

The Saint and the Chopped-up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / - xiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The situation -- The process of canonization -- Shaping the narratives of the saint -- Creating the official image of the saint -- Competing stories : whose Vincent Ferrer is it, anyway? -- The afterlife of the chopped-up baby : the sixteenth century and beyond -- Epilogue : Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Spanish Americas.

9780801452178 (cloth : alk. paper)

2013024750


Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419 --Cult--History.--Europe


Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.

BX 4700 .V7 / S66 2014

282.092